핵심 개념
Incorporating an adaptive convolution layer ahead of leading deep learning models, such as UCTransNet, dynamically adjusts the kernel size based on the local context of the input image, enabling the network to capture relevant features at multiple scales and improve segmentation accuracy and robustness.
초록
The paper proposes an adaptive convolution layer to be integrated into leading deep learning models for medical image segmentation (MIS). The adaptive layer dynamically adjusts the kernel size based on the local context of the input image, enabling the network to capture relevant features at multiple scales.
Key highlights:
- Traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often rely on fixed kernel sizes, which can limit their performance and adaptability in medical images where features exhibit diverse scales and configurations.
- The proposed adaptive layer is placed ahead of leading deep models, such as UCTransNet, to overcome the limitations of fixed kernel sizes.
- By adaptively capturing and fusing features at multiple scales, the approach enhances the network's ability to handle diverse anatomical structures and subtle image details.
- Extensive experiments on benchmark medical image datasets (SegPC2021 and ISIC2018) demonstrate the superior segmentation accuracy, Dice, and IoU of the adaptive approach compared to traditional CNNs with fixed kernel sizes.
- The model and data are published in an open-source repository to ensure transparency and reproducibility.
통계
The proposed adaptive layer maintains a similar number of parameters compared to the original models, as shown in Table 1.
인용구
"By adaptively capturing and fusing features at multiple scales, our approach enhances the network's ability to handle diverse anatomical structures and subtle image details, even for recently performing architectures that internally implement intra-scale modules, such as UCTransnet."
"Extensive experiments are conducted on benchmark medical image datasets to evaluate the effectiveness of our proposal. It consistently outperforms traditional CNNs with fixed kernel sizes with a similar number of parameters, achieving superior segmentation Accuracy, Dice, and IoU in popular datasets such as SegPC2021 and ISIC2018."